easiest way to get a text file of tweets

[Bill]

Hi. Can any suggest the easiest way to get a text file of say 2000
tweets that contain the word 'Japan' in them?
Thanks.

[Bill Claster]

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/1df7a2d9898d93e4#

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[Abraham Williams]

Not quite what you are looking but http://tweetbook.in/oauth lets you export to pdf.

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[Bill]

Hi Thanks very much. Actually though it seems that they only can make
a pdf with my own tweets. I was hoping to get just tweets that contain
the word 'japan' but thanks anyway.

On Apr 15, 9:58 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not quite what you are looking buthttp://tweetbook.in/oauthlets you export
> to pdf.

[Matt Sanford]

You could use http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=japan and a small bit of scripting. Look in those results for a link rel="next" for the next page. That will let you page your way back to ~1500 tweets.

Thanks;

  — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford

[Bill]

Hi. Thanks again. I see:

<link type="application/atom+xml" rel="next" href="http://
search.twitter.com/search.atom?
max_id=1529989226&amp;page=2&amp;q=japan"/>


but how do I change that and what do I change it to in the url:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=japan

is there some part of the url that I can adjust to get more results?

Bill

On Apr 15, 11:39 pm, Matt Sanford <m...@twitter.com> wrote:
> You could usehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=japanand a  

[Peter Denton]

<?php   
     $page_num = 1;
     $txtString = "";
     while ($page_num <= 2 )
     {
         $host = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=japan&max_id=1529989226&rpp=100&page=$page_num";
         $result = file_get_contents($host);
         $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($result);
         foreach ($xml->entry as $entry)
         {
          $statusUpdate[] = $entry->title;
         }
       $page_num++;
     }
     foreach($statusUpdate as $su)
     {
       $txtString .= $su;
     }

     $myFile = "myTextFile.txt";
     $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
     fwrite($fh, $stringData);
     $stringData = $txtString;
     fwrite($fh, $stringData);
     fclose($fh);
?>

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[Peter Denton]

and you could bump up the while loop to 15, to get 1500 results, like...

while ($page_num <= 15 )

notivce in the search URL rpp=100 (results per page) and page=$page_num (pagination), so you can get 1500 results

[Bill]

THANKS Peter!
It works!

On Apr 16, 12:12 pm, Peter Denton <petermden...@gmail.com> wrote:
> and you could bump up the while loop to 15, to get 1500 results, like...
>
> while ($page_num <= 15 )
>
> notivce in the search URL rpp=100 (results per page) and page=$page_num
> (pagination), so you can get 1500 results
>

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Peter Denton <petermden...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > <?php
> >      $page_num = 1;
> >      $txtString = "";
> >      while ($page_num <= 2 )
> >      {
> >          $host = "

> >http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=japan&max_id=1529989226&rpp=1...
> > ";

> >          $result = file_get_contents($host);
> >          $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($result);
> >          foreach ($xml->entry as $entry)
> >          {
> >           $statusUpdate[] = $entry->title;
> >          }
> >        $page_num++;
> >      }
> >      foreach($statusUpdate as $su)
> >      {
> >        $txtString .= $su;
> >      }
>
> >      $myFile = "myTextFile.txt";
> >      $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
> >      fwrite($fh, $stringData);
> >      $stringData = $txtString;
> >      fwrite($fh, $stringData);
> >      fclose($fh);
> > ?>
>

> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Bill <william...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hi. Thanks again. I see:
>
> >>  <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="next" href="http://
> >> search.twitter.com/search.atom?

> >> max_id=1529989226&amp;page=2&amp;q=japan<http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?%0Amax_id=1529989226&page=2&q=j...>

> > i...@twibs.com

>
> > Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter -http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c
>
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